Question follow-through · 108537
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the rate of VAT on retail, hospitality and leisure from 20% to 13% on that sector.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the rate of VAT on retail, hospitality and leisure from 20% to 13% on that sector.
28 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the significant contribution made by retail and hospitality businesses to economic growth and social life in the UK. VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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